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Not quite the same thing but close enough happened to me with "Time In a Bottle."  I love Jim Croce music, but I cannot stand that song.   Though maybe the pain is wearing off because I've heard some covers of it that I rather enjoyed.

Will The Circle Be Unbroken - AP Carter / Trying to learn some Carter style picking on it, and also a finger picking version on it similar to one I heard done by Taj Mahal. 

- Zurf

Wreck of the Old 97.  I've worked out a finger pattern I like for the musical interludes.  After the "scalded to death by the steam" and before the "All you ladies you better take fair warning" I speed up a little and a little more and a little more and then when the strum (which is actually harder for me than the finger picking) gets real fast then I switch over to finger picking to make it feel much, much faster and I keep taking it faster and faster until I can't go no mo' and then take it back to strumming at the verse speed for the final verse and then after that I finger pick it as fast as I possibly can for the end. 

I say that this is what I "do", but what I should say is that this is what I've been practicing to do if I ever get the chutzpa to do an open mic.  I did this song at the July River Jam, but it still wasn't fast enough to suit me then. 

- Zurf

Tin Cup Chalice - Jimmy Buffett.  It's one of the songs that I have found I can fit in between hitting the enter key and the server doing whatever it is the server does until the page I need comes up. 

- Zurf

Another one you can do as an A, D, E medley is "What I Like About You" and "Sherry Baby".  I found this out one time at a jamm session where I started playing what I thought was "What I Like About You" and another guy said, "Hey, I know that song".  So I said, "Sing along then."  And when we both started singing, we were each singing a different song. 

- Zurf

Remember to get an in-guitar humidifier too.  They run about $20 in the states.  Having your guitar properly humid inside makes a big difference in its tone. 

- Zurf

Bummer.

Rainbow Connection

Get rid of your old strings.  New strings = new life many times.  Get rid of the .10s that Yamaha ships with.  Forget about them.  They sound tinny on anything.  Put .11's on that Yamaha, either D'Addario Silk & Steel ($8) or Elixir nanowebs ($15).  Put on a Tusq saddle ($11), and if you can afford someone else to install it a Tusq nut too.  Replace the string pins with some bone or brass ($20).   This is all stuff you can do at home and the most challenging part is sanding down the bridge.  For $40 bucks or so you'll have a sound coming out of that Yamaha you never expected. 

If you don't want to do that, then try Seagull, Alvarez, Takamine, Michael Kelly, Blueridge, Ovation and anything else you can get your hands on.  And don't completely discount Taylor and Martin.  Taylor has the 110 and Martin has the X series with a solid wood top in about the same price range as some of these other brands. 

- Zurf

That's the point.  It's not really a theological statement.

For PM's - you don't.  You click the e-mail hyperlink under the member's name by any of their posts.  That opens a new e-mail window and you can send an e-mail to that member.  It's as if the e-mail comes from you rather than from Chordie, so then you've got what you need to have a conversation.  Easy peasy. 

- Zurf